Artificial Intelligence and blockchain technology now influence the intellectual property environment. For example, machine learning is regularly used in trademark patent searches IP databases. Machine implementations different areas, including tracking, copyright evaluation, comparisons, can be seen more often. A vast range of LP notary are proposed using technologies, new networks emerge, bot...

I n recent years, globalization has forced a deeper appreciation of the relationship between intellectual property (IP) law and global health. The threat of an emergent avian bird fl u pandemic led to calls for Roche to relax patent restrictions on oseltamivir, a drug with potential effi cacy against bird infl uenza [1,2]. In the context of the fall 2001 anthrax attacks, the US government faced...

This paper responds to an invitation by the editors to consider whether the intellectual property (IP) regime suggests an appropriate model for protecting interests in detached human body parts. It begins by outlining the extent of existing IP protection for body parts in Europe, and the relevant strengths and weaknesses of the patent system in that regard. It then considers two further species...

In this study, an attempt has been made to expound the Iranian law of intellectual property in relation to biotechnology. The most important themes studied are patents, industrial designs and trade marks. The latest relevant piece of legislation concerning the subject matters was passed in March 2008. However, the history of laws and regulations in this field goes back to early twentieth centur...

A brief account of the three stages of development of a new mental health law in Iran is given. At each stage, the expert opinions of mental health professionals and lawyers interested in the rights of psychiatric patients were obtained. The final draft of the law consists of six sections and 50 articles. It has been submitted for ratification by Parliament.

This article analyses intellectual property (IP) disputes in investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) through the lenses of Third World approaches to international law (TWAIL) and how a reformist TWAIL approach might be used address concerns related IP-ISDS disputes. It has three objectives. First, discuss its readings IP. Using framework, illustrates TWAILers’ positions on Agreement Trade-Rela...

Abstract The interaction between artificial intelligence and intellectual property rights (IPRs) is one of the key areas development in law. After much, albeit selective, debate, it seems to be gaining increasing practical relevance through intense AI-related market activity, an initial set case law on matter, policy initiatives by international organizations lawmakers. Against this background,...